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From Comics to NovelsPhantacea Revisited graphic novels morph into full length Phantacea Mythos mosaic novels; only the beginnings, middles and endings have changed to protect what really happened |
Cataclysm CatalystThe second Phantacea Revisited Graphic NovelFull cover by Verne Andru, 1980-2013 - Double-click to enlarge - |
Internal Artwork CreditsArtwork from pH 1-7 as well as Phantacea Phase One #1; samples link from here; |
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Phantacea Seven- Comic Book to Web-Serial - Ian Bateson's unpublished artwork from Phantacea Seven provides the basis for the first full-length phantacea Mythos Mosaic Novel since Check out the expanded Availability Listings for places you can order or buy Phantacea Publications in person
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The second entry in the 'Launch 1980' story cycle is now available for ordering onlineDouble-click on images to enlarge in a separate windowDedicated webpage is here; back cover text can be found here and here; lynx to excerpts from the book start here and here; check out material that didn't make it here and related excerpts from its scheduled follow-up, 2014's |
Centauri Island- Web-Serial to Novel - At long last, the second entry in the Launch 1980 epic fantasy has arrived. Ian Bateson's breathtaking wraparound cover for the novel utilizes his own dragons from pH-7. Those from the unfinished cover for the Phantacea Phase One project can be seen here and here. |
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Phantacea Revisited #1Check out the expanded Availability Listings for places you can order or buy Phantacea Publications in person NEW: Read most of the mini-novels making up "The Thousand Days of Disbelief" today on Google Books
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Guess what's once again available for ordering in print?
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The Damnation Brigade Graphic NovelArtwork never seen before in print; almost all of pH-5 available for the first time since 1980 Images in this row double-click to enlarge here The entirety of Ian Bateson's until-now-unpublished contribution to |
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Goddess GambitDouble-click on rollover to open a separate window featuring the full cover of "Goddess Gambit"; red sampler enlarges here |
Phantacea Publications is pleased to announce
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The Mighty Eye-Mouth in the SkyDouble-click on Sedonic Eye to enlarge in a separate window; blue, 2012 ad enlarges here |
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The Thousand Days of DisbeliefPhantacea Publications is pleased to announce the three mini-novels constituting
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Hit here to initiate orders directly from amazon.com and some its affiliates. Books from Phantacea Publications currently available include Kindle versions of Libraries, bookstores and bookseller collectives can place bulk orders through Ingram Books, Ingram International, Coutts Information (and Library) Services, Baker & Taylor, and a large network of other distributors worldwide. Some of the Phantacea comics and graphic novels can be ordered through Drive Thru Comics. Or, if you prefer to order directly from the publisher, email or send your order(s) via surface mail. No matter where you live or what currency you prefer to use, I'll figure out a way to fill your order(s) myself. Please add an additional 12% to cover Canadian and provincial taxes as well as Canada Post rates for shipping. At present Phantacea Publications can only accept certified cheques or money orders. BookFinder.com lists both of the original versions of the mosaic novels: Another interesting option for the curious is Chegg, which has a rent-a-book program. Thus far its search engine shows no results for phantacea (any style or permutation thereof) but it does recognize Jim McPherson (a variety of them) and the titles of the novels. As for the Whole Earth (other than the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head, at least as far as I can say), this page contains a list of a few other websites where you can probably order the novels in a variety of currencies and with credit cards. |
Meanwhile, elsewhere on the Phantacea Publications website| Phantacea Publications Welcoming Page | Internal Search Engine | Main Menu | Lynx to additional PHANTACEA Websites | Online phantacea.com Primer | Ordering Information for PHANTACEA Mythos novels | Ordering Information for Additional PHANTACEA Mythos Print Publications | Contact | Web Publisher's Commentary | pHantaBlog | |
For a quick loading version of the front cover, see the covers page; For a much larger view of the To order |
-- FOREVER & 40 DAYS --© copyright Jim McPherson, 1990-2010 |
Story selections, synopses, commentaries & web-features written by Jim McPherson Collages, photographs, scanning and web-design by Jim McPherson Credits for additional artwork ascribed in mouse-over text |
“Forever & 40 Days – The Genesis of PHANTACEA” |
A Graphic Novel plus a short story and additional material – 84 pages in total| Full Wraparound Cover | Notes re Wraparound Cover | Characters Depicted on Front cover | On Back cover | Background Notes | Summary of Contents | Back cover Blurb | Frontispiece | Cain Cover + Link to Cain Chapter from 'Helioddity' | Introduction | Back cover of pH-1 | Dave Sim drawing of the Indescribable Mr No Name | “Pre-Forever” | Image of Abe Ryne + Internal Lynx re 1st Sequence | “Tail Teller” | The Birth of the Devil Himself | “Sedon – Master of Weir” | Image Collage of Helios Ordering Machine-Memory to Nuke Weirstar | “Tell Tail” | Image + Note re Devils Surviving Weirstar Supernova | “Sedon Brings Hell To Earth” | Image + Note re Sedonshem Landing | “The Day Before Forever” | “Forever and a Day” | Details re the Biblical Patriarchs | “Sister Grandmother” | Price List in 1990 | Additional lynx for artwork from the graphic novel | |
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WRAPAROUND
COVER: Creative Team listed on the front cover are Jim
McPherson (creator/writer/publisher) and Ian Fry (artist); overall pencils,
inks, colour and typesetting on the cover are by Ian Bateson, 1990; Top of Page - Back to Beginning - Onwards & Upwards |
CHARACTERS ON FRONT COVER: Xuthros Hor (the Biblical Noah as a samurai) holding a spear in his left hand and the reins of Raven’s Head in the other; thunder and lightning, torrential rainstorm, the beginning of the Deluge; Top of Page - Back to Beginning - Onwards & Upwards |
ON BACK COVER: depiction of a massive, octagonal boat intentionally reminiscent of Noah’s Ark foundering in tempestuous seas; text on back written by Jim McPherson; Top of Page - Back to Beginning - Onwards & Downwards |
BACKGROUND
NOTES: Top of Page - Back to Beginning - Onwards & Upwards |
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS:
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FOREVER AND FORTY DAYS "Helios as history," thinks Ryne, "What a horrid concept!" Yet history is exactly what Kadmon Heliopolis, orphaned son of Second World War Greek Freedom Fighters, becomes. When the Devil came into existence, Helios acted. When the Devil was driven out of Weirsystem, Helios pursued. When the Devil fled through the heavens, Helios attacked. When the Devil came to Earth, Helios followed. But the Entity called Sophos the Wise could never rid the Cosmos of the Evil he helped create. That task fell to Xuthros Hor, the Tenth Patriarch of Golden Age Humankind. High atop Mt. Ararat, Hor summoned the Deluge. Sedon, the Eternal Antagonist called for a bar of soap. "Taking Genesis literally troubled me. Taking Genesis as Mythology --- like The Iliad or The Eddas --- was inspirational." Jim McPherson
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PAGE 1: Frontispiece listing credits for the overall package; the credits are Jim McPherson (creator/writer/publisher); Ian Fry (artist); the three letterers who worked on the graphic novel (henceforth referred to as the lettering team): Linsea Stamer, Ian Fry and Fred Armstrong; Cover Illustration by Ian Bateson; Production by Baseline Type and Graphics; Printing by Ark Service Printers (Printed on Recycled Paper); and a logo reading: ‘Anheroic Fantasy Illustrated – PHANTACEA – Since 1977’; Top of Page - Back to Beginning - Onwards & Upwards |
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PAGES 2-3: Introduction written by Jim McPherson, November 1989; illustration entitled “Cain, Slayer of Abel” by Ian Fry, 1988; usual declaimers at bottom of pg 2 (1st printing May 1990; published by Jim McPherson; etc) Top of Page - Back to Beginning - Onwards & Downwards |
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4-14: Sequence One entitled “Pre-Forever”;
written by Jim McPherson, illustrated by Ian Fry and the lettering team
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An image suggestive of 'the Great Man', Abe Ryne, circa 1980PHANTACEA Notes: Virtually all the characters who appear in this sequence of '4-Ever & 40-Days' have been major characters in one, another or a number of the Web Wheaties, as in serials, thus far presented during the course of pH-Webworld; Here are lynx to more information on some of those mentioned next door: | Loxus Abraham Ryne | Jordan Tethys | O’Ryan James Maxwell | James Aremar | Melina nee Sarpedon Zeross | Megaera nee Kinesis Zeross | Angelo Zeross | Demonites Zeross | Kadmon Heliopolis | Professor Romaine Kinesis | Dr Aristotle "Harry" Zeross | Mikelangelo Starrus | Top of Page - Back to Beginning - Onwards & Downwards |
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O'Ryan James Maxwell became the Indescribable Mr No Name in pH-2; artwork by Dave Sim, 1978; Top of Page - Back to Beginning - Onwards & Upwards |
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15-22: Sequence Two entitled “Tail Teller”;
written by Jim McPherson, illustrated by Ian Fry and the lettering team
(Linsea Stamer, Ian Fry and Fred Armstrong); Top of Page
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The Birth of the Devil HimselfThe Trigon Asteroid came out of the time stream at the beginning of the Male Entity's 5th Lifetime. It thereupon became part of the First Weirsystem. Some time later, under the watchful eyes of the Mnemosyne Machine, the Moloch Sedon emerged fully formed from a tub of Cathonic Fluid. Also depicted in this somewhat digitally dicked, Ian Fry illustrated sequence are Heliosophos and now 1-eyed Cabalarkon, the ultimately Undying Utopian Sedon regards as his true father. Top of Page - Back to Beginning - Onwards & Downwards |
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23-29: Sequence Three entitled “Sedon –
Master of Weir”; written by Jim McPherson, illustrated by Ian Fry
and the lettering team (Linsea Stamer, Ian Fry and Fred Armstrong); Top of Page - Back
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Helios Ordering Machine-Memory to Nuke WeirstarIn Sequence Three, Heliosophos (Helios called Sophos the Wise) orders the Mnemosyne Machine (Machine-Memory) to destroy Weirstar. By doing so he hopes to simultaneously destroy the Moloch Sedon, the Thrygragos Brothers and the entirety of devakind save the Trigregos Sisters. Because she is essentially a machine, the Female Entity has no choice except to obey him. She succeeds in nuking the star. As is also detailed in the graphic novel, its explosion is eventually witnessed on the Outer Earth, where it is recorded as Supernova 1987A Top of Page - Back to Beginning - Onwards & Upwards |
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30-37: Sequence Four entitled “Tell Tail”;
written by Jim McPherson, illustrated by Ian Fry and the lettering team
(Linsea Stamer, Ian Fry and Fred Armstrong); Top of Page - Back to Beginning - Onwards & Downwards |
Although Machine-Machine succeeded in destroying Weirstar, its explosion did not result in the complete destruction of devakind. Led by their Grandfather Sedon and his three second generational sons, the Thrygragos Brothers, they reach New Weirworld, where Helios now lives as King Kad and Memory is being humanized by the Trigregos Sisters. Kyprian Somata, the Master of Weir in 5938 YD, recounted much the same story as that contained in Sequence Four during the course of 'Helioddity', She called it "Helios Goes Nuclear". Top of Page - Back to Beginning - Onwards & Upwards |
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38-46: Sequence Five entitled “Sedon Brings
Hell To Earth”; written by Jim McPherson, illustrated by Ian Fry
and the lettering team (Linsea Stamer, Ian Fry and Fred Armstrong);
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Script on 'Sedon Brings ... Hell to Earth' image reads: "In the Year since Zero, the Sedonshem landed atop Kanin City in the Archipelago of Pacifica. Among the multitude crushed to death beneath it was Droch Nor, the 7th Patriarch of Golden Age Humankind!" Another image taken from Sequence Five can be found here. Top of Page - Back to Beginning - Onwards & Downwards |
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47-57: Sequence Six entitled “The Day Before
Forever”; written by Jim McPherson, illustrated by Ian Fry and the
lettering team (Linsea Stamer, Ian Fry and Fred Armstrong); Top of Page - Back to Beginning - Onwards & Upwards |
Xuthros Hor causes the GeneseaXuthros Hor is shouting: "Let the skies burst forth! Let the matchless fury of the ocean waves rise up! Flood over this cursed planet! Wash the Earth clean of devas and all that is evil!" The text beneath the image reads: "The rain came down in mighty torrents, and the subterranean waters burst forth upon the earth for forty days and nights, and the water covered the earth for 150 days." Top of Page - Back to Beginning - Onwards & Upwards
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58-71: Sequence Seven entitled “Forever and
a Day”; written by Jim McPherson, illustrated by Ian Fry and the
lettering team (Linsea Stamer, Ian Fry and Fred Armstrong); Top of Page - Back to Beginning - Onwards & Upwards |
PAGES 72-73: 2-page set of details re the Biblical Patriarchs from Adam to Noah, including a chart as to when they were born (starting with Adam’s birth at Year Zero and ending 1656 years later with the Great Flood, when Noah was 600 years old), how long they lived and when they died; this data was then applied to the PHANTACEA Mythos timeline as Years Pre-Dome or PD (counting backwards from Hor’s 600th year). Notes also include information as to how their PHANTACEA Mythos names came about (amalgams of actual names taken directly from the Bible, Egyptian mythology and an ancient list of the first 10 Chaldean kings). Beneath the 'Sedon Brings ... Hell to Earth' image, above, reference is made to a Year Zero. This refers to the year given in the Bible for the birth of Adam. Alorus Ptah is the PHANTACEA Mythos name for the1st patriarch of Golden Age Humankind. He would have been born (or at least brought up) in Old Eden. In all likelihood he would also have been responsible for the Golden Agers' rebellion and, possibly, for its subsequent sinking. Within the PHANTACEA Mythos Alorus Ptah was the Male Entity whereas the Female Entity was Tristar Thrae (the Biblical Eve). She was the birth mother of Abel and Seth, the 2nd patriarch of Golden Age Humankind. Primeval Lilith, the Queen of Demons, was the birth mother of Anti-Patriarch Cain. Top of Page - Back to Beginning - Onwards & Upwards |
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74-83: 10-page short story entitled “Sister Grandmother”;
illustrations include 4-pages from PHANTACEA
#1, all of which were drawn and lettered by Dave Sim in 1977; 1-page
from PHANTACEA #4, as drawn and lettered
by Verne Andru (signed Andrusiek) in 1979; and 1-page from PHANTACEA
#5, as pencilled by Vince Marchesano, inked by Mar + Day (their credits)
and lettered by Bill Payne in 1980; Top of Page - Back to Beginning - Onwards & Upwards |
PAGE 84: 1990 price list featuring b/w reproductions of all the covers from previous PHANTACEA print publications. Top of Page - Back to Beginning - Onto Additional Lynx |
Additional lynx for artwork from the graphic novel| More on Jordan Tethys | Hell, Laz, Mith & Sed | Sedon's Head - Inspiration or Destination | |
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Helios and Thrygragos Lazareme often look similar; In his first life, Helios might have been Anti-Patriarch Cain; If so then Helios was his own father |
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The Inner Earth of Sedon's Head came from my head -- or did it? Might it be an actual destination? |
Webpage last updated: Winter 2011/12There may be no cure for aphantasia (defined as 'having a blind or absent mind's eye') but there certainly is for aphantacea ('a'='without', like the 'an' in 'anheroic') Interactive PDFs of some of the Phantacea Mythos books and graphic novels released by Phantacea Publications are available for downloading from One Book Shelf and its frontline ordering sites: Drive Through Fiction and Drive Through ComicsTop of Page - OnwardsAlternative Ordering Information for PHANTACEA Mythos mosaic novelsDownloadable order form for additional PHANTACEA Mythos Print PublicationsCurrent Web-Publisher's CommentaryJim McPherson's Worldwide Email Address -- jmcp@phantacea.compH-Webworld 1996-2006: THE WEB SERIALSpHantaBlogWebsite last updated: Winter 2017/18 Written by: Jim McPherson -- jmcp@phantacea.com
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